Word: freshened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fashion-conscious Republicans know that it's better to look good than to feel good. So the folks at Clairol sponsored a "Freshen Up Lounge" where guests could see how they look in another hair color via color vision computer...
...first ten months as President, Aquino has already begun to freshen up the office with an honesty and humility rarely seen in political circles. Before her U.S. visit, for example, she exasperated Philippine couturiers, accustomed to the imperial Imelda, by refusing to spend more than $40 on any dress. She still prefers not to be called "Madam," an honorific she feels was stained by the former First Lady. In many ways, in fact, she seems as open as before. Upon learning that a local journalist had won a grant to study in the U.S., the President stunned the woman...
...Panish, 48, a former pharmacist, has come up with a new form of traveler's aid. This week, in a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, he opens Skytel, a minimotel where passengers can freshen up and relax for a few hours or even minutes. Though rooms are small (6 ft. by 15 ft.), each contains full amenities, including a telephone with a hookup for computers. The cost: $5.50 for the first 20 minutes and 25 cents per minute thereafter...
...earnest radicalism of the 1930s has become familiar terrain for fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the factions within American Jewish culture (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), assiduously attempts to freshen the milieu: his title character and narrator is a thoughtful, believable preadolescent girl; her father is a celebrated radical journalist from an old-line, plutocratic Wasp family, her mother a Jewish emigre...
...working out in the 5,000 health clubs built in the U.S.; 20 million overweight Americans-and 20 million more who believe they are-will join in the battle of the bulge by dieting this year; and an alltime high of 440,000 patients will elect cosmetic surgery to freshen their features and tuck in their tummies. As if to give the surprisingly durable trend an official fillip, President and Mrs. Reagan have joined the race. A Universal-type weight-lifting machine has just been installed in a spare room of the White House family quarters for almost daily workouts...